Weekly Information for UW Medical Students
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COVID-Related Information
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Do You Have Concerns About COVID-19 Symptoms or a Possible Exposure?
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University of Washington Requiring all Students Be Vaccinated Before Start of Autumn Quarter
On Monday, May 3, an email was sent from the President’s office to UW students, faculty, academic personnel and staff, noting that all students will be required to be vaccinated before returning to the UW this fall. UWSOM leaders are discussing what this means for medical students in Seattle and throughout WWAMI, and details will be forthcoming. If you did not receive the email from President Cauce you can find it here.
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UW Medicine Town Hall Meeting
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Information for All Students
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Health Sciences Library Collections
Please note that submitting a comment does not guarantee that we will be able to keep the resource. Librarians will evaluate each title based on your feedback, their knowledge of the discipline and departments, as well as usage and impact metrics, cost, and value; see more details on the Principles & Rubric for Subscription Review webpage. If a journal you need remains on the cancellation list, we are committed to continuing to work with you to provide an alternative path to access the resources you need.
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Intranet Restructure – We Need Your Feedback!
The UWSOM Communications team needs your feedback during the review and restructuring process of the UWSOM Intranet site. Our goal is to restructure the Intranet website to make it navigable, relevant, and organized to best meet your needs.
Please fill out this survey to provide feedback on the current state of the Intranet and how we can improve it. The survey will remain open through Friday, May 7.
If you have any additional feedback, please reach out to the Communications team at uwsomcom@uw.edu.
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Career Advising Presents two MS4 Match Panels – Join Us! Open to all students.
The Couples Match: MS4 Panel
Thursday, May 13, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT
Curious to learn more about how the couples match process works? Hear from and ask questions of recently matched MS4 couples from a variety of specialties.
This session is open to all students, but we kindly ask that E18s have priority in asking questions of the panelists.
Specialty Decision Making as Residency Applications Approach: MS4 Panel
Monday, May 17, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT
Making your specialty decision can be challenging for many students. In this panel, MS4s will share their approaches and strategies for specialty decision making.
Hear from and ask questions of recently matched MS4s who:
- finalized their decision in the months leading up to residency applications being due
- or changed specialties towards the end of their medical school journey
This session is open to all students, but we kindly ask that E18s have priority in asking questions of the panelists.
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Academic Support Update
We are excited to announce our new Director of Academic Support, Dr. Erica Brice, will begin supporting Cascade students for Step 1 prep and Cascade, Alaska, Wyoming and Montana students for Step 2 prep from May 3, 2021 onwards. Students can schedule by emailing ebrice@uw.edu. Dr. Tyler will continue to support Olympic students for Step 1 and Olympic, Spokane and Idaho students for Step 2. Students can schedule with Dr. Tyler at https://go.oncehub.com/YvonneTylerMD. For general questions around Academic Support, please contact somlearn@uw.edu.
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AAMC's Year-Two Questionnaire
Students can now review the AAMC’s Year-Two Questionnaire (Y2Q) survey report online. In total, 192 UWSOM E19 medical students completed the survey for a 70% response rate. E19 students indicated a high degree of satisfaction with the overall quality of medical education (91%) and with being fostered and nurtured in their development as future physician. Data associated with one of the school’s continuous quality improvement priorities, student mistreatment experiences, were mixed: offensive sexist comments slightly decreased (12% vs. 15%, 2019); public humiliation as a mistreatment source increased (11% vs. 8%, 2019) and so did racially/ethnically offensive remarks/names (7% vs. 5%, 2019).
Contact eqi@uw.edu if you have any additional questions about the Y2Q results.
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Invitation to An Evening with Neuroscience 2021
Grey Matters Journal at the University of Washington is hosting its annual event, An Evening with Neuroscience (EWN) this Friday, May 7 at 5 pm PDT, live on YouTube.
EWN is an educational, fun event intended to celebrate our remarkable brains and give attendees the opportunity to engage directly with an interdisciplinary panel of neuroscientists, spanning neuroethics, computational neuroscience, basic science research, neurotechnology and engineering, and more from the forefront of the neuroscience field. Discussion will center around both scientific and sociocultural questions, and one hour will be dedicated to answering audience questions, submitted via live chat. Anyone and everyone, no matter their background in neuroscience, is invited to participate.
Live closed captions will be available for all livestreams. Please contact us at thalamus@uw.edu if you have any other accessibility needs or any questions about the event.
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Learning Environment Corner
Established in 2016, the UW Department of Surgery (DOS) Women’s Council is one of four departmental organizations established to promote gender equity in surgery.
As its first task, the Council administered a DOS-wide survey to better understand if gender was perceived as a barrier to a surgical career. The results were presented at its inaugural annual Grand Rounds, in 2018, to several UWSOM groups, including the Dean’s Committee on Women in Medicine, and at the 2019 Pacific Coast Surgical Association annual meeting, in addition to being published in JAMA Surgery.
Next, the Council created a policy that more clearly defined standards around pregnancy, parental leave, and lactation. Issues for the pregnant surgeon such as when call, clinic, and elective surgery scheduling can stop were defined, as were clearer standards regarding leave time for all parents, as well as for those adding children to their families.
Finally, working with the DOS Resident Women’s Council, the group investigated the impact of gender on grading within its multi-site, multi-state surgical medical student clerkship. This work was presented, in April 2020, at the Association of Surgical Education annual meeting.
Currently, the Council is working to address ongoing issues that impact the success of breast feeding among surgeons. It looks forward to continuing its work to ensure gender equity in the department.
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- Restorative Justice Consultant Candidate Presentations
- Financial Aid Updates
- Learning Environment Corner
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Updates for each class:
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